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Favoriting July 30, 2024: "Deadpool & Wolverine", "Didi", "Widow Clicquot", "The Crossing", "Twisters", "National Anthem", "Great Absence", "July Rhapsody", "Following the Sound", "Oddity"

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Steely Dan  Everyone's Gone to the Movies   Favoriting Katy Lied  MCA Records       
Jim the Poet discusses  "Fitzcarraldo"   Favoriting n/a  n/a  Directed by Werner Herzog Written by Werner Herzog Produced by Werner Herzog Walter Saxer Lucki Stipetić Jorge Vignatti Starring Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale José Lewgoy Miguel Ángel Fuentes Paul Hittscher Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez Grande Otelo Peter Berling 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "Burden of Dreams"   Favoriting n/a  n/a  Directed by Les Blank Written by Michael Goodwin (narration) Produced by Les Blank Starring Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale Jason Robards Mick Jagger[1] 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "Deadpool & Wolverine"   Favoriting N/A  N/A  Directed by Shawn Levy Written by Ryan Reynolds Rhett Reese Paul Wernick Zeb Wells Shawn Levy Based on Marvel Comics Produced by Kevin Feige Lauren Shuler Donner Ryan Reynolds Shawn Levy Starring Ryan Reynolds Hugh Jackman Emma Corrin Matthew Macfadyen 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "Oddity"   Favoriting N/A  N/A  Directed by Damian Mc Carthy Written by Damian Mc Carthy Produced by Laura Tunstall Mette-Marie Kongsved Katie Holly Evan Horan Starring Gwilym Lee Carolyn Bracken Tadhg Murphy Caroline Menton Jonathan French Steve Wall 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "Widow Clicquot"   Favoriting N/A  N/A  Directed by Thomas Napper Screenplay by Erin Dignam Story by Christopher Monger Erin Dignam Based on The Widow Clicquot by Tilar Mazzeo Produced by Christina Weiss Lurie Haley Bennett Joe Wright Starring Haley Bennett Tom Sturridge Sam Riley 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "National Anthem"   Favoriting N/A  N/A  Directed by Luke Gilford Written by David Largman Murray Kevin Best Luke Gilford Produced by Mickey Liddell Pete Shilaimon Kevin Garland Gina Marcheschi Jasmine Daghighian Starring Charlie Plummer Eve Lindley Mason Alexander Park Rene Rosado Robyn Lively 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "Didi"   Favoriting n/a  N/a  Directed by Sean Wang Written by Sean Wang Produced by Sean Wang Josh Peters Carlos López Estrada Valerie Bush Starring Izaac Wang Joan Chen 
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Jim the Poet discusses  "July Rhapsody" "男人四十"   Favoriting N/A  N/A  Directed by Ann Hui Written by Ivy Ho Produced by Ann Hui, Derek Yee Starring Jacky Cheung Anita Mui Karena Lam Shaun Tam 
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Steely Dan  Everyone's Gone to the Movies   Favoriting Katy Lied  MCA Records      0:56:29 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
Folsom:

Three Jims Up!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Ike:

↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan"
This song's lyrics are creepy AF.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
chresti:

Hi Jim thumb show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Folsom:

Jim, since you follow Fabio, you need to have him stay a little later to discuss sports movies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Jim the Poet:

Question of the Week: Do you like movies better when they are based on true stories?
  6:03pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" by "Steely Dan"
That's enough. Lets talk movies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
chresti:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:03
Sometimes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Folsom:

Amityville Horror is "based" on a true story.
  6:04pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:03
yes, mostly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
zachary:

Hey Jim the Poet! Hello listeners!

The question of the week: Do you enjoy movies more if they are based on a true story?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Folsom:

Human Centipede is 100% medically accurate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
dale:

making of fitz is interesting...jason robards and mick jagger cast first.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
ironybread:

"chungle"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
common:

both great films. too bad people got killed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
dale:

and claudia cardinale - me-OW.
  6:08pm
wenzo:

Herzog makes up some parts of his documentaries too from what I understand
  6:09pm
wenzo:

Lost in La Mancha?
  6:10pm
modern blaze:

damn, Burden of Dreams
Avatar 6:11pm
tom tom the pipers son:

in a scene in burden of dreams herzog describes the jungle not in terms on flora and fauna, but fornication
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
dale:

chicken man was canadian, no?
  6:11pm
Tom from Stirling:

The King's Speech, that was a good one
  6:11pm
modern blaze:

wish you could tell a thing about X-Men the first from those times of trilogies
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
dale:

dudley dooright was certainly can con.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
DjLorraine:

Based on a real flashlight?
  6:15pm
modern blaze:

after oddity goes Dracula 1992
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
common:

john larroquette got paid with cocaine to do the opening monologue for texas chainsaw i read
  6:16pm
Listener Robert:

I doubt I would've gone to see The Mothman Prophecies had I not been friendly with John Keel. He was the one who told me the movie was coming out.
  6:18pm
Listener Robert:

I think it added a little something that Cocaine Bear was based on a real bear. I probably wouldn't've seen that either without that hook.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
zachary:

↳ common @6:15
And he did a hell of a job. Classic opening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
zachary:

No remakes. That's the worst genre of movie.
  6:20pm
wenzo:

I think that would be very hard to do well 😂
Avatar 6:21pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Millie Bobby Brown is a Brit. So is Beth actress from Yellowstone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
dale:

'prairie madness' - i LIKE It.
  6:22pm
Tom from Stirling:

Gary Oldman was good in True Romance.
  6:22pm
chresti:

They all moved to California
  6:22pm
Listener Robert:

I watched "Lost" because friend Damon Lindelof told me it was coming. I guess it adds a teeny-tiny bit of something that it was very indirectly based on the historic loss of Engine 115 in Lindal, England in 1892.
  6:23pm
wenzo:

Apparently the BBC did make a Monty Python biopic called “Holy Flying Circus” in 2011
Avatar 6:25pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Albuquerque is a cool city to live in, but the homicide rate is 150-200 people per 650,000. 38 per 100,000. Wyoming has about the same number of people with TEN homicides per year or 1.5 per 100,000. Why the difference? If anything, there are probably MORE guns in Wyoming.
  Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:

I highly recommend "Good One," a real-life kind of movie. Opens in NYC in a week or so. I saw it at ND/NF.
  6:25pm
Listener Robert:

I guess likewise it added a teensy-weensy something that "1941" was based mostly on the so-called Battle of Los Angeles, with some contribution of other historic events of that time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Folsom:

I wonder if Jim liked the Weird Al movie?
  6:27pm
wenzo:

I thought David Bowie was great as Andy Warhol personally
  6:27pm
Vanessa tries:

…David Bowie playing Andy Warhol?
  6:27pm
RustyinBaltimore:

Confessions of a dangerous mind is a good movie for this prompt.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
common:

↳ zachary @6:19
agreed!
  6:27pm
Listener Robert:

Mostly what these connections add is the ability to tell your friends, "Did you know, and could you believe, this was based on a true story?"
  6:28pm
RustyinBaltimore:

Claims to be true but obviously far flung. Great movie. Love Sam Rockwell in it.
  6:28pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Vanessa tries @6:27
Bowie also played Pontius Pilate.
  6:28pm
wenzo:

@ Vanessa Tries… yea in “Basquiat”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Folsom:

Wiki says Haley Bennet born in Fort Myers.
Avatar 6:30pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

The Weird Al movie on Roku was HILARIOUS. It was "Based on real life". It was hilarious that he shows Madonna and Michael Jackson copying his songs. Over the top.
By the way, I hand out flyers advertising WFMU to strangers wtih cool band tshirts or Zildjian cymbals or whatever. Metal dudes. Some dude that looked like a young hippy, I gave him one also. Rose colored glasses, long hair dude with a paisley shirt. I assumed he would like FMU. I gave one to our friends daugher who is addicted to her phone. With her mom's permission of course.
  6:31pm
Listener Robert:

Then there are the movies based on ALLEGED historic events that nobody would give much veracity to. Like the way "Northman" was based on the story of Amleth from Saxo Grammaticus's history of Denmark.
  6:31pm
modern blaze:

woman works, works, works, works... symptom of Dracula 1992
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ Song: ""Widow Clicquot"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"
I don't know about the movie; however, there are Champagnes out there that blow away Veuve Clicquot. Love the program, JtP.
  6:31pm
wenzo:

Where did you get the flyers wild Neil? Did you make them yourself?
  6:32pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Listener Robert @6:31
It's about like the way you can say Hamlet is based on a true story -- the SAME sllegedly true story.
  6:33pm
wenzo:

That was a hardcore Bucci fan
Avatar 6:35pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

When Angelika opened people were shocked movie tickets were FIVE DOLLARS in 1989 or so. It was the first theater I ever saw that had a pastry shop in it. Mind-blowing at the time. Fountain Theatre (historic adobe theatre) shows old movies in Las Cruces and they used to sell food and wine and beer.
Renzo, here is the flyer:
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Go to WFMU.org and listen to one of two live streams or check out their archive.
Also fun is put in a name of a band in the WMFU band browser and see the shows it appeared in.
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On the app on your phone you can download 3 hour long shows if you want. All FREE FREEFORM radio. There is NOTHING ELSE like this out there, except for maybe some college radio stations.
Shows (at least 40 or more) to check out:Garbage Time, Irwin, Dianes Kamikazee Fun Machine (metal), John Allen (kinda noisy) , Ken, Feelings with Michele with one L, etc etc etc. The archived shows go all the way back to 2000.
  Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:

↳ Henry Hudson's Distant Relative @6:25
Not a "true story," not based on a historical figure or a celebrity, etc. A fictional movie about a father on a camping trip with his teenage daughter and his best friend. Extremely anxiety-provoking in an understated sort of way. Kind of like "Camping with Ken and Andy."
  6:36pm
modern blaze:

she is hot!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
zachary:

I forgot to mention the Talking Heads classic, True Stories: en.wikipedia.org...
  6:39pm
modern blaze:

hay spundles or ray pugg or jay york, hee-hee
Avatar 6:40pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Waking Life (2000?) had some actual people playing themselves, including Alex Jones.
  6:41pm
Tom from Stirling:

Alien: Romulus opens soon in a theater near onw.
  6:41pm
modern blaze:

i wanna see based on true stories of a kind man: Fallout 2nd screenings of season two
  6:43pm
Tom from Stirling:

Jack Black was good in School of Rock
Avatar 6:43pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

↳ wenzo @6:31
Wenzo-Its just text, made it myself.
  6:46pm
modern blaze:

please be advised! don't call Vault-TEK on a number given in trailer
  6:46pm
haricots verts:

Dennis Hopper’s ‘metafictional’ THE LAST MOVIE (1971)
“ROAR!”🦁(1981/2015) = brilliantly misguided jaw-dropper. 👏 yes to Linklater’s ’BERNIE’ (2011) = excellent viewing experience!
Docu-demented ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ (2014) = stellar!
  6:47pm
Tom from Stirling:

Is this Siskel and/or Ebert on the line?
  6:48pm
Danne D:

there needs to be a movie about Jim The Poet
  6:49pm
Danne D:

Jack Black is a scene stealer in Bob Roberts
  6:50pm
Danne D:

Roger Ebert pride of the University of Illinois
  6:50pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: ""Didi"" by "Jim the Poet discusses"
Is this about the kid who wants to be a skate-boarder?
  6:50pm
Danne D:

Q: if the movie is bad enough will you start rooting against the characters?
Avatar 6:52pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

↳ Danne D @6:50
Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, unlike his other movies, is nearly unwatchable. So is the Ghost Story where the dead guy is a ghost and he wears a bedsheet with a couple eyeholes in it. I quit after 45 minutes and was SO pissed off.
  6:53pm
Danne D:

Ilya Sorokin wrote The Social Network?
  6:53pm
modern blaze:

who? plays? Fallout: New Vegas?
  6:53pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Wild Neil||Peace All @6:52
Yeah, that was shite.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Folsom:

↳ Danne D @6:50
The Rocky and Bullwinkle movie was so bad I just walked out.
  6:55pm
Danne D:

yeah saw Rocky and Bullwinkle on my birthday. I will say that the actors at least seemed to have fun making that abomination.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Steve Del Sol:

What?? Trump losing would be a full on modern day tragedy. Vote him down!! Now that's' entertainment!!
  Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
drew:

And The Honeymooners was based on The Life of Riley.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
ultradamno:

I saw Fly Me To The Moon recently, from meet cute to happy ending (complete with cheesy "they're finally doing it" visual innuendo) it was much more of a flat-out rom-com than I expected
Avatar 6:59pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

Do NOT go see the animated Fly Me to the Moon. PURE GARBAGE. Fly adults and maggot children. Really just low grade trash.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
ultradamno:

↳ Wild Neil||Peace All @6:59
They look like alien The Chipmunks on the poster
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
ultradamno:

external-content.duckduckgo.com...
  7:01pm
Tom from Stirling:

What's a Drexel?
  7:03pm
modern blaze:

basic! ghoul would never cut the finger! ghoul of midwest, dummy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
zachary:

Thanks Jim! Thanks listeners!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
zachary:

And thanks callers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
chresti:

Thanks Jim!
  7:06pm
Tom from Stirling:

Now that was a good movie to write home about.
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